Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITiES.


The West London Commercial Bank,
limited, has failed.
The International Range Association is
in session at Denver.
w. w. Burton was seriously gored by a
bull on Tuesday, near Santa Barbara.
De Brazza, the French explorer, has
started for the French Congo territory.
General Won Moltke considers Grant one
of the greatest Generals that ever lived.
1t is limited in Washington that Smith
NJ. Weed is to be Manning's successor in
the Cabinet.
Parnell is reported to be improving in
trio relaxation.
John Morley is acting as mediator be-
tween the Northumberland miners and
their employees.
The trial of Ben Arthur at Weaverville,
for completely in the Erickson murder, is
nearly completed.
The San Jose Citrus Fair is success. A
large number of attractive exhibits have
been placed on exhibition.
District Attorney Breckenridge has been
acquitted at MERGED on a charge of assault
and battery upon Samuel Ross.
A shooting affray near DeKalb, Tex, on
Monday, resulted in the killing of four
men and the wounding of boy.
Reports received at London from various
directions reassert that troops are being
concentrated in Southern Russia.
DR.. McGlynn has told his parishioners
not to raise any more money tor him, as he
will soon be able to earn his own living.
The new town of Niagara is TO be laid
out on the California Southern Railroad,
one and one-quarter miles north OF Elsi-
more.
Elk postmaster-General Frank Hatton,
editor of the Chicago Mail, is in Washing
ton booming Senator Sherman for the
Presidency.
French commanders along the German
frontier have been ordered to avoid all
exercises of their troops likely to be falsely
interpreted to Germany.
The Columbia river, from the mouth of
the Willamette to the Cascades, is blocked
with ice. Old steamboat men say it will
not be open for three weeks.
Several members of the anti-Patriotic
League have been arrested at Paris for pla
carding the city with an appeal 10 soldiers
to desert or shoot their officers.
1t is stated that the Abyssinians lost 5000
men in the battles i'll which the Italian
forces were defeated near Massowah, in the
Soudan, on January Goth and 9th.
New York pugilistic circles were greatly
excited yesterday by the report that Jack
Dempsey and Dominick McCaffrey had at
last come to an agreement TO battle in the
ring.
Rev. r. Heber Newton, of New York, is
in poor health, and is visiting his father in
Philadelphia. He denies the rumors that
his trouble with his parishioners is because
he supported George.
Senator John P Jones' of Nevada, says
that he has made but little in mining dur
ing the last year. He says he has done
we'll in business. but has had nothing like
the success attributed TO him.
Tuesday afternoon the body of young
man named John Dixon, a resident of Val
lejo, was recovered from the bay. He had
been hunting upon the previous day, and
is supposed to have fallen in and been
drowned.
The Chinese laundrymen of New York
have taken steps to devise means of mutual
protection against the Chinese bosses.
Wag heretofore have been paid according
to the profits of the laundries. The washers
especially want more pay.
1t is intimated that if Senator Riddleber-
ger of Yirgininia resigns, as he threatens to
do, it will be for monetary consideration,
More than year ago he told prominent
Republicans that he had been offered $50
600 in cash to resign and let Democrat
take his place.
Representative Belmont of New York
has earned the reputation of being the
checklist man in Congress. He ordered
the covers and title pages of the pamphlets
containing the report of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs TO be printed a5 follows ::
6, Mr. Perry Belmont's Report to the House
of Representatives on Fisheries" etc.